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The Frozen Chosen, are
creating a communal and
religious life that may well
point to the future pattern for all
of American Jewry.
That, says Rabbi Harry Rosen-
feld, means congregations like
his Beth Sholom in Anchorage.
Half the members are intermar-
ried, a high proportion have not
converted, and in practically all
families, both parents work full
time.
These are the figures for An-
chorage, where around 70 per-
cent of Alaska's 3,000 Jews live.
In the state capital of Juneau,
with about 200 Jews, a commu-
nity leader says she knows only
five or six couples in which both
partners are Jewish.
In smaller towns, such as Sit-
ka, Kenai and Haines, all but one
or two couples are intermarried,
says Bernard Reisman, profes-
sor of contemporary Jewish stud-
ies at Brandeis University, who
is in the midst of an intensive de-
mographic census of Alaskan
Jewry.
Factor in that by migrating
here from the Lower 48, most
Alaskan Jews have severed their
ties to large urban Jewish com-
munities and extended families,
and conventional wisdom dic-
tates that the state's Jewry will
be totally assimilated and all but
disappear in a couple of genera-
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deis scholar. For one, in more cas-
es than not, "the non-Jewish
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partner acquiesces to being Jew-
ish, so actually we're gaining
there," he says.
Professor Reisman's analysis,
based on in-depth questionnaires
sent to 1,050 Alaskan Jews and
augmented by personal and
phone interviews, yields an even
more surprising finding.
"By every measure of Jewish
identity used in the U.S. National
Jewish Population Survey —
synagogue attendance, home rit-
ual, visits to Israel, etc. —
Alaskan Jews score higher than
Jews in the Lower 48 [continen-
tal United States]," he says.
To explain the seeming para-
dox, Professor Reisman specu-
lates that when Jews migrate to
the Last Frontier, they experi-
ence an often unacknowledged
sense of loneliness. They seek
surrogate ties for extended fam-
ilies left behind and ultimately
discover that their Jewishness is
more important to them than
they had thought.
The Brandeis academic also
found that the largest group of
Alaskan Jews originated from
the northeastern states, espe-
cially New York and New Jersey.
The second largest contingent
came from the Los Angeles area,
in a two-step process.
"The Angelenos first moved to
northwestern cities, like Seat-
tle and Olympia," says Professor
Reisman. "When they felt that
these cities were becoming too
crowded and life too intense, they
moved on to Alaska."
To pull together the state's
scattered Jews, Professor Reis-
man and resident Jewish lead-
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